When Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin went on My View with Lara Trump to talk about government partnerships with American tech champions, they weren’t trading empty slogans — they were laying out a real plan to marry American energy and American AI so our scientists and manufacturers can compete and win. This administration understands that building capability at our national labs and with private partners is how you convert policy into power for hardworking Americans.
What Secretary Wright described as the “golden era of American energy dominance” is bigger than pipelines and permits; it’s about giving our national labs the computing power they need to innovate, solve hard energy problems, and keep those breakthroughs here at home. The Department of Energy has already moved to stand up next-generation supercomputing capacity—systems built with American partners like Dell and NVIDIA—to accelerate everything from grid reliability to new nuclear designs. That’s common-sense patriotism, not some pie-in-the-sky green fantasy.
Administrator Zeldin’s blunt point — that we do not want to have to rely on China for critical technologies — is exactly the kind of clarity Washington has been missing for years. For decades we outsourced the guts of our supply chains while lecturing the world on standards; now we’re finally putting muscle behind the words by securing domestic energy, chips, and AI infrastructure that keep innovation and jobs here. Americans should cheer a policy that prioritizes sovereignty over cheap imports and ideology over results.
Let’s be honest: the previous administration’s war on reliable energy and its hands-off attitude toward strategic tech left us vulnerable and dependent. Secretary Wright’s first orders to cut red tape, prioritize baseload generation, and streamline permitting aren’t just good economics — they’re national security measures that reverse the reckless policies that hollowed out our energy backbone. Restoring production and protecting supply chains means lower bills, stronger industry, and fewer strengths ceded to our rivals.
Partnerships with private-sector innovators like OpenAI, NVIDIA, and major system integrators aren’t giveaways to big tech; they’re investments in American workers and American science that will pay dividends in new jobs, faster breakthroughs, and stronger defenses against economic coercion. When Oak Ridge and other labs get access to frontier AI tools tied to a secure, domestic energy and compute supply, that’s how the next great American inventions are born — not in Beijing, but right here.
Patriots who pay the bills deserve leaders who fight for independence — not leaders who outsource our future. Secretary Wright and Administrator Zeldin are signaling that this administration will defend American energy, build American compute, and partner with American industry to make sure our children inherit a country that doesn’t beg for chips or power from hostile regimes. If Washington follows through, these are the policies that will revive manufacturing, put Americans back to work, and keep our technological destiny in American hands.
